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Lester Wareham wrote in post #19459452

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What a beauty. Great shot Lester

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19459453

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Another beautiful shot

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19459452

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Lester Wareham wrote in post #19459453

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Peter2516 wrote in post #19461114

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WOW. These are great shots of beautiful birds.

A squirrel with lunch

Bit of a squirrel theme.

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Grey Squirrel

The subject tracking is quite good but there are times it does not work, particularly when there is something close to the focus plane. If you notice this you can use an alternative focus method (fine focus point for example) to correct the focus plane after which a return to tracking might be OK. In these examples (attached in this and the following message) I could not tell in the viewfinder the tracking algorithm had grabbed the background. I thought this might be of interest.

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Now back to actual pictures.

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PinholeR5 wrote in post #19458923
Yep, it was just my teleconverter.

Nice discussion. As for terminology, let us not forget that with the R6 II Canon introduced the "Digital Teleconverter" that gives us "One-touch extra reach"

So after looking into what it actually is, it seems to be just what could have been two extra crop modes instead of just 1.6x (2x and 4x), but they gimmicked it up by only allowing JPEG and resampling those JPEGs to the set JPEG size, in an attempt to justify the use of the word "teleconverter" (in contrast to a proper "crop mode", an optical teleconverter maintains full pixel count).

If they'd wanted to simply add additional crop modes, I'm confident they would have done that. I don't know who would have wanted that, though.

They didn't want to do that. They DID want to give people an upsampled, digitally-zoomed option. It's not for you, it's not for me, but it is for someone and I for one can accept its existence for what it is.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19462464

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Beautiful shot--Lester.

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19462461
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My R5 would do that too. I would use the pre-focus technique or alternate focus method as you describe it. I still prefer single point AF to get as much contrast as possible. In this case single point might be too big and could grab the foliage behind. Single and spot are bit larger in the R7 and R6II compared to the R5.

The way I look at it this new tech is amazing but still in its infancy. We probably won't be having these conversations in 10 years.

digital paradise wrote in post #19462537
My R5 would do that too. I would use the pre-focus technique or alternate focus method as you describe it. I still prefer single point AF to get as much contrast as possible. In this case single point might be too big and could grab the foliage behind. Single and spot are bit larger in the R7 and R6II compared to the R5.

The way I look at it this new tech is amazing but still in its infancy. We probably won't be having these conversations in 10 years.

Yes I am wondering if I should have the fine point AF as the primary AF (AF on) and the subject tracking secondary (*), rather than the current reverse way around for this reason...

Lester Wareham wrote in post #19462549
Yes I am wondering if I should have the fine point AF as the primary AF (AF on) and the subject tracking secondary (*), rather than the current reverse way around for this reason...

I'll be re-evaluating that when I get out there and have the time to experiment in decent weather. Are you using the AF Preview (white pre-focus square) option on page 3 of the purple AF menus? I find it very handy, if it can find the eye first.